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I love this kinda crap. "Hack the planet" and so on. Is someone working on an open source car?
I have thought about it, but the assembly process has to be extraordinary simple. I would be terrified to know that the fastener I recommended sheared, taking someone's life.
Also, there seems to be at least two extremes in DIY. One would be the individual who understands the processes and is doing it to show their technical prowess. The other would be the individual who desperately needs the end product.
I know right? Open source hardware has so many potential benefits over commercial. Significantly decreased price, privacy, good documentation, right to repair, no conflict of interest and potentially one day performance. Imagine we have engineers from across the world improving a single computer chip design, generator design, solar panel fabrication process, or maybe even perhaps an open source fusion reactor blueprint someday in the next 20 years (pun intended).
I'm seriously considering starting something like this myself. Open source blueprints for power generation/energy storage (regular batteries, thermal sand resevior based batteries, hydro power generation), water filtration, machine tools for fabricating anything, CNC machine, plasma cutters, hand tools, etc. Basically everything you could need to live Open Source.
The problem as always is getting enough designers, engineers, and volunteers.
Ever hear of a hackerspace aka makerspace?
Thank you! I didn't know about them!!
My Chevy bolt proudly proclaims that its dashboard UI is open source software
I imagine it follows the splash screen with "you can submit PRs to https://github.com/my-chevy/dashui.git" lol